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Unintended Consequences
Unintended Consequences A Commentary by Tea Party Patriot For the first time in a long time, Mesa County voters may catch a break in the House District 54 race. Without a rehash of the lurid details or the comedy of errors that precipitated the present boots on...
LACKING LEADERSHIP: Gilbert Ortiz Failing To Fulfill Duties As Head Of County Clerk Association
In this morning's Denver Post, Sara Burnett highlights some worrying issues with election readiness in County Clerk and Recorder offices as we're only 77 days out from the election. There's someone to blame but Burnett doesn't mention it in her...
SWIFT AND HARSH: Republicans Denounce Akin’s Comments
Today, The Daily Beast called the Republican response to Todd Akin's inappropriate comments about rape "swift and harsh" - as it should have been. His comments were inexcuseable. Below are a few of the reactions of Republican leadership,...
WOMEN AND ECON: My Purse Politics Launches with Pinterest and Facebook Ads
A new endeavor, My Purse Politics, has officially launched by revealing its advertising campaign “One Woman’s Story” featuring Colorado women from Douglas, Denver, and Jefferson Counties, who have concerns about the direction our country is headed.My...
FLASHBACK: Brandon Shaffer Compared His Political Plight To Rape Victims In January
After Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin got a much-deserved national foot up his *ss for his moronic musings on rape, it's worth remembering another Congressional candidate's own thoughtless thoughts on the subject right here in Colorado.Earlier this year,...
FACT CHECK: Obama’s Record on Medicare
With the hurricane of attacks that have come Vice Presidential Nominee Paul Ryan's way, we thought we'd take a minute to set the record straight on who actually cut Medicare. Hint: It's not Paul Ryan.The truth is that President Obama is the only candidate...
POLL WARS: Coors Releases Poll Showing Him Up 9, Perlmutter Whines But Won’t Release Own Poll
UPDATE: The Colorado Observer's Tyler Sandberg has more on the poll. Ed Perlmutter, over to you to release something, anything about your poll. According to Anderson, the sample of the survey was 39% Democrat / 37% Republican / 24% Unaffiliated/Other. That appears to...
Burning Daylight
A Commentary by Tea Party Patriot The troubled GOP candidate Jared Wright is just the tip of the iceberg; the focus of the moment. He is the current manifestation of a systemic problem within the GOP on the western slope. It's his turn in the same barrel that Scott...
Redemption by the Barrel
A Commentary by Tea Party Patriot In a statement yesterday Mesa County Republican Party bosses tried to disconnect with their scandal ridden House Dist 54 candidate Jared Wright. They distanced themselves, when you read between the lines of their official statement...
FELON FUNDRAISER FIASCO: Did Joe Miklosi Knowingly Hire An Ex-Con To Raise Money?
UPDATE: Per 9News: AURORA - The congressional campaign of Joe Miklosi (D-Aurora) is acknowledging it never performed a background check on an employee forced to resign after a conservative website revealed his history of drug arrests. Doran Kaye's background was first...